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Fruit a capsule of 3 crustaceous 2-valved 

 cocci ; disk present in the male and 

 fern, flowers ; styles once 2-fid., free ; 

 stipules peltate. Herbs : 

 Leaves scattered, cuneate-obovate ; 

 capsule smooth .... 



Leaves close-set, distichously imbricat- 

 ing, oblong or linear-oblong ; capsule 

 echinate ..... 



Anthers didymous, reniform, the cells sub- 

 globose, slits very short ; fruit a capsule ; 

 styles once 2-fid., free or connate : 



Seeds finely tubercled ; stipules peltate. 

 A perennial herb or undershrub 



Seeds with parallel ribs on the back ; 

 stipules simple, not peltate. An annual 

 weed ...... 



3. P. maderas paten- 



4. P. urinaria. 



5. P. simplex. 



6. P. Niruri. 



JL P* reticulatus Pair. Encycl. Meth. v, 298 ; Brandts For. 

 Fl. 453 ; Ind. Trees 570 ; F. B. I. v, 288 ; Watt E. D.; Comm. 

 Prod. Ind. 887 ; Gamble Man. 598 ; Prain Beng. PL 935 ; Cooke 

 FL Bomb, ii, 585. P. multiflorus, Willd.; Roxb. Fl. Ind. Hi, 664 

 (not of Roxb. Ic.). Vern. Panjuli, kabonan (Merwara). 



A large often scandent shrub, glabrous or pubescent ; branchlets slender, 

 drooping, smooth or lenticellate ; bark thin, greyish -brown. Leaves 

 variable, thin, glabrous or nearly so, pale beneath, 1-2 in. long, oblong 

 elliptic or rotundate, obtuse or acute at the apex ; base rounded, acute 

 or subcordate ; main lateral nerves 6-8 pairs, slender ; petioles up to 

 J in. long ; stipules shorter than the petioles, ovate, acute, sometimes 

 bristle-pointed. Flowers axillary, males in fascicles, the females 

 solitary, pedicels slender. Calyx T \y in. long, glabrous ; segments 

 oblong, obtuse, alternating with the glands of the disk. MALE- 

 flowers. Stamens 5, the three inner connate, the two outer free 

 and shorter. FEM. -flowers. Ovary 5-10-celled ; ovules 2 in each 

 cell, superposed ; styles 3, minute, 2-lobed. Fruit a globose berry, 

 about J in. diam., smooth and shining, dark-purple when ripe. 

 Seeds usually 10, trigonous, crustaceous, punctulate. 



Meerut (T. Thomson), Rohilkhand (Edgeworth), N. Oudh and Gorakh- 

 pur (Duthie) ; often found climbing amongst bushes and in hedges. 



